Save Kenya's Coast from sliding into total anarchy now, leaders warn

Police arrest a suspect during riots in mombasa. [PHOTO: FILE STANDARD]

Mombasa Kenya: Assassination, murder and bombings. These narratives of death and destruction are slowly becoming part of the daily conversations at the Kenya’s Coast.

On Thursday afternoon, unknown gunmen confronted a female German tourist and her Kenyan lover at Old Town, Mombasa County, and shot her dead. This was near the spot where another tourist, a Russian woman, was also gunned down on July 6, in a series of puzzling attacks that have rocked the Coast.